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12. Which is the New Kingdom pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) known for?
(Points : 5)
establishing the New Kingdom

disguising herself as a man

building the Great Pyramid at Giza

establishing a new, monotheistic religion

13. Which describes an accomplishment of the Persian Empire?
(Points : 5)
building a complex road system to aid in communication and control

opening trade routes to China, India, and Japan

inventing bronze, writing, and the wheel

building the Ishtar Gate and Hanging Gardens of Babylon

14. Which was not a method used by early empire builders to gain and maintain power?
(Points : 5)
using armies for conquest

building new temples

taxing merchants and subjects

appointing governors and officials

15. Which early groups migrated into modern-day Turkey and Iran from southern Russia and later formed empires?
(Points : 5)
Akkadians and Egyptians

Hyksos and Babylonians

Hittites and Aryans

Sumerians and Hebrews

16. Which best describes why the Neolithic Revolution was such an important turning point in history?
(Points : 5)
The revolution led to different social roles for males and females.

Religion emerged as people planted and harvested crops.

Metals tools allowed strong rulers to conquer new territory.

People began to control their physical environment for the first time.

17. Which Phoenician invention influenced the western world?
(Points : 5)
the alphabet

the wheel

writing

iron

18. Which best describes the beliefs of early Hebrews? (Points : 5)
They believed that God was not interested in human affairs.
They believed in a single, all-powerful god.
They believed that God had human failings.
They believed that the gods were associated with nature elements.

19. Which was the lowest caste in India’s social order?
(Points : 5)
Brahmans

Kshatriyas

Vaishyas

Shudras

20. Which best describes the term classical as it applies to historic eras?
(Points : 5)
an era of great achievements in art, science, religion, philosophy, and politics

an era of expansion and colonization

the time in any culture before written records were kept

a time before modern musical forms took shape

21. Which is not an achievement made by the Gupta Empire during India’s golden age?
(Points : 5)
a system of numerals

invention of paper

lifelike statues

great works of Sanskrit literature

22. Which is the most important relationship in Confucianism?
(Points : 5)
between friends

between ruler and subject

between parent and child

between brothers

23. Which is not a feature of an ideal ruler, according to Confucius?
(Points : 5)
a sense of tradition

literary knowledge

absolute power

a moral example

24. Under which empire or dynasty was paper invented?
(Points : 5)
Han

Qin

Zhou

Gupta

This is for my creative writing group, so don’t worry if you don’t get the plot or anything…not that there is much here. Do you like my style? How can I improve it? Would you read something this descriptive, or would it bore you? Is my writing too detached and unemotional? Is this over-the-top descriptive?

The wind blew from the east, scattering shards of leaves and dried-out petals and yellowed blades of grass across the Stone Garden. It smelled and tasted like Autumn. The Stone Garden itself wasn’t large; it was comprised of a series of interlocking grey stone plates that formed paths, terraces and junctions locked in a maze of flower beds and hedges and shrubberies. All were pruned to perfection, not one curious tendril creeping out of place. Some were little higher than a child’s ankle, while others towered over the heads of the guards who patrolled the Seat of the Eshani, to which the Stone Garden was attached. The Seat itself was a great stone building, made of a different rock to the Stone Garden, big enough to house the five hundred residents comfortably.
In the centre of the Stone Garden was a statue of the first Eshani, Loraleiya of Riem. She sat casually, clad in stone armour with a spear held loosely in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, gazing blindly over the lake where the Garden ended. Servants and Priestesses alike within the Seat of Eshani approached the statue hesitantly, their eyes lingering a little too long on her cold, blank face. They would place a bouquet of flowers at her feet, bow in reverence, then scurry back to their duty before they were missed.
Few people were exempt from this unofficial ritual. I was one of them. Although I often passed the statue of the first Eshani, I never laid flowers around her ankles, I never bowed in respect, and I never hurried back to my duty.
I had no duty. In the Seat of the Eshani, I was largely ignored.
On that early Autumn morning, I sat silently behind the statue of the first Eshani in the middle of a collection of old books in a sprawl around me. The wind gently tossed the open pages back and forth, dried vegetation catching between the folds. The ancient leather bindings creaked as I pulled them slowly open, scouring their pages for new knowledge.
Boots clinked heavily on the paving as another guard patrol approached. Hazy sunlight glinted off their bronze plating, casting gold light across the floor and onto the statue. They paused, pressing a hand to their hearts and bowing, before moving on. Their eyes passed over me like I was another part of the Garden.
Their rudeness should have offended me, but it didn’t. I had lived my entire life enclosed within the walls and guard patrols of the Seat of the Eshani, where I was treated like part of the furnishings; something ornamental, but not remarkable. On the contrary, their treatment of me had become useful. I was not disturbed when I read in unusual places, or when I walked paths taken only by servants.
By the age of sixteen, I was used to the passive shunning of the residents of the Seat of the Eshani. My very face marked me as different; round blue eyes set into pale skin, framed by waves of light brown hair. Most of the residents, priestesses, servants and guards, were tanned from constant outdoor work, and had the dark hair and dark eyes of the local people. I knew of one person who looked anything like me, and she had died many years ago.
As the shadows of the guards retreated, I focused hard on my studies. The tutors made up the majority of the people who didn’t ignore me, though I was taught separately from the bulk of the classes, and I was taught different things. The novice priestesses learned beekeeping and horticulture and cooking and healing, the steps in the rituals of birth and death, and the words of the many Eshani, passed down in great musty tomes like the ones I had in front of me. I was taught history; the history of the Eshani, the history of other races and peoples, and the history of the rise and fall of the Fourth Empire, before the Eshani and her priestesses had retreated to their secluded seat in the mountains and devoted themselves to themselves.
Every few days I would memorise a new story from one of the books. Though I knew it wasn’t a story, sometimes they were so fantastical I treated them as such. When the weather was pleasant, I would sit in one of the sun rooms or in the Stone Garden, where I could study in peace away from the hubbub of the main part of the Seat. At first I had found it unbearably dull; I would retreat to a secluded part of the Stone Garden and hide, waiting for one of my tutors to find me and chastise me for refusing to learn, but as I grew older I realised I had nothing else to do, and I learned to enjoy it.
I was reading the story of Uetis, a great king from the Far Lands, who had fallen from grace among his people and reduced to a maddened wreck in the forests when I first heard her voice.

I am from Roussillon, from the town if Ille. My father is very well off here, and I am marrying a local girl, Mlle de Pygarrig. She is very pretty. The best of it is that she is very rich. Her aunt from Prades left her a fortune. Oh! I shall be very happy. My mother gave me a family ring to wed with, it dates from the days of chivalry – two clasped hands. I added some diamonds to it, worth twelve hundred francs. I think my fiancee will be very glad to have it all. Twelve hundred on the finger is pleasant. We are having civil marriage in the town hall of the village, and the religious ceremony in the chapel of the château. There will be no dancing, because my fiancee is in mourning after the aunt who left her all the money. But we are to have a huge supper in the evening. I am an athlete and I play tennis. We have a racquet court near the house. So, this morning, some Spanish muleteers from Aragon and Navarre played against local guys and we lost. I could not endure it, took off my wedding clothes and played. But the heavy ring which I was wearing, squeezed my finger, so I took it off and put it on the finger of the bronze statue of Venus with we had in the garden. Then I beat these Spaniards! Then it was time to go, we went to Puygarrig, to the town hall, and there I found out that I left that ring on the statue’s finger! I am to marry soon, I need a ring! I am afraid that the ring which I forgot might be stolen, too. And I can’t tell anyone, people will laugh at me and call me the husband of the statue! What should I do?

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YOUNG COUPLE SEEMS THEIR WALKING IN A GARDEN WITH FLOWERS THE YOUNG MALE HAS GIVING THE FEMALES LOOKS AS BOTH MAY NOT HAVE A CARE AND THEIR IN LOVE, STATUE IS 24" HIGH HARD FIRED,CLAY STATUE BRONZE TYPE

I can’t remember either the author or the title (shame on me) but do remember that it would have been published in the early 1980′s. It was a small hardback for 10 – 15 year old readers, and had a collection of about ten stories. The first one was a story about a boy who dreams his plants are out to get him, and who manages to avoid death by a potted plant that his mother gives him, only to be flayed to death by the roses in the garden as he tries to escape the house. The second or third was about a boy called Dean whose father had bought a bronze statue at a police evidence auction. The statue itself comes to life, and tries to kill his family, implying that the crime it was involved in was a supernatural one. The final story I remember from the collection was one of two boys who go out on a boat in the Norfolk Broads, only to become stranded ghosts in the fog.

…Can ANYONE recognise the collection? I’m a librarian, and at my wit’s end as to what it could have been. However, it was a UK book, not American.

This is a fantasy book I read when I was in elementary school which I remember really loving. Unfortunately I can’t remember the author or title, and only about half the plot. Oh, and that the cover has some sort of ornate landscape on it with mountains in the distance, with a girl leaning against a window frame (or a tree?) Can anyone help me? Does this sound familiar to you?

What I remember:
-The main character is a young girl
-her family is poor or in some other way impaired, and she lives in a small village at the edge of a forest
-in some way the country is being oppressed by this power in the mountains, a witch
-She runs away into the woods with the intent of helping her family, taking only a knapsack with some food and takes a little bronze (or wood?) statue from her house
-Along her quest: the bronze statue comes alive in her pocket and in some way becomes her companion
-She finds a frog in a pavilion or small garden house and the water is stagnant, and he talks to her and tells her something useful
- This part I remember very VIVIDLY: She has to cross a field/valley full of sharp rocks and she has to cross carefully not to fall and hurt herself. Finally she loses hope and begins to cry, and her tears melt smooth FOOTPRINTS IN THE ROCKS that she can follow to get through it
-At the end she confronts the witch somehow on a mountaintop, and the snow is in patches of many different colors

There’s more, vague details i remember, but these are the only specific ones. I would really appreciate some help finding this book! thank you!

PARIS – At a golden statue of a flickering flame, fans of Princess Diana pay homage to her in Paris, leaving behind poems and prayers even now, 10 years after she died nearby.A French child’s collage proclaims her “unforgettable.” An Italian fan scrawls, “I still love you.”But contrary to popular belief, the statue wasn’t built for Diana; it was merely appropriated by her fans.With the 10th anniversary of her death on Friday, a few fans say it’s time she had a Paris monument in her honor — something permanent, unlike the memorabilia swept away regularly by trash collectors — and they have begun a fundraising drive.‘Shocking and flagrant’
Dominique de Fontenay says he thinks about Diana every day as he passes through the Pont d’Alma traffic tunnel where she died in a car crash, and he is always struck by the lack of a monument.“That seems shocking and flagrant, given Diana’s notoriety and the love that most people all over the world felt for her,” said de Fontenay, a 34-year-old event planner who conceived the project.De Fontenay teamed up with a jeweler and sculptor, Xavier de Fraissinette, who sketched out ideas for a bronze statue of a suit-clad Diana reaching out to a small child holding a bouquet.“The hardest thing will be getting her expression, her smile, her face right,” said de Fraissinette, who designed a sculpture for the Lyon, France, meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in 1996. “It must not be a mortuary monument, she must be natural.”Raising money, slowly
After a few mentions in the local press, about 150 people have donated a total of ,500, the two said. Building the statue will require 0,000, said de Fontenay, a Diana fan who remembers joining up with crowds to mourn the princess after the Aug. 31, 1997, crash that killed her, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur, Henri Paul.“I think everyone on the planet who had a heart was depressed that day, or at least filled with a great sadness,” said de Fontenay, who named his cat “Princess” in Diana’s honor.The plans by de Fontenay and de Fraissinette are in the early stages and do not have approval from Paris City Hall, where the press office said officials were not aware of their campaign. The process could be long, and they will need approval from the city council.De facto memorial
For now, the torch statue near the traffic tunnel remains the de facto memorial. A replica of the Statue of Liberty’s torch, it was donated in 1987 by the International Herald Tribune newspaper as a symbol of French-American friendship.Ten years later, mourners turned the torch into a Diana shrine, which seemed fitting because Elton John sang “Candle in the Wind” at her funeral in London’s Westminster Abbey.On any given afternoon, dozens of tourists crowd around the torch, snapping pictures and leaving behind cellophane-wrapped roses. After posing for a snapshot, 29-year-old Arijit Ray of London said he wished de Fontenay and de Fraissinette luck.“There should be a statue,” he said.De Fontenay already has a spot picked out — a grassy garden right above the tunnel where the crash took place.It’s all ready. There are flowers. All that’s missing is Diana,” he said.